Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Prof. Günter Fruhtrunk.
Lives and works in Munich

Since 1985 concrete painting:
For more than "three decades the artist Monika Huber dealt intensively with the main questions of pictorial thinking. In the field of tension between free gestural painting and strict geometric form settings, the master student of Günter Fruhtrunk created a wide-ranging oeuvre, which she consistently developed further in an ongoing process (...) Based on tense contrasts, Monika Huber (...) was concerned with the conflict between the spontaneous, immediate and the systematic, well-calculated, detached from any pictorial object." (Erika Wäcker-Babnik, Munich, 2011)

Since 2011 work on the Archive OneThirty:
From 2011 with the protests in the North African countries, the so-called Arab Spring, the media image coverage changed and gave the artist the occasion to deal more closely with this 'new' visual language. She directly transferred the procedure of painting and drawing, which she was familiar with, to the media image templates. Over the years, she has constantly developed hundreds of overpaintings/drawings of images from the news world, thus founding the archive OneThirty, which she continues to maintain.




Scholarships and awards:


• Scholarship from the City of Munich for painting
• DFJW working scholarship in Paris and Royan
• Scholarship from the Ministry of the Interior
• Funding under the Hochschulsonderprogramm II
• Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Stiftung
• Hypo Kulturstiftung
• Verein Ausstellungshaus für christliche Kunst e.V. Munich
• First prize of the protestant regional church Württemberg
• Joseph and Anna Fassbender-Preis, Brühl
• Stipendium Deutscher Künstlerbund




Work in museums/collections (selection):

• Artothek, Munich
• Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich
• Europäisches Patentamt, Munich
• Kunsthalle Bielefeld
• Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
• Kunstmuseum, Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg
• LFA Förderbank Bayern
• Munich Re
• Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg
• St. Annen-Museum, Lübeck
• Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
• Städtische Galerie Ingolstadt
• Städtische Galerie Rosenheim
• Städtische Galerie Würzburg
• Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
• Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
• ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe




Solo exhibitions at museums since 1987:


• Bauhaus Dessau, Muche-Schlemmer Meisterhaus
• Bonner Kunstverein
• Heidelberger Kunstverein
• Kunsthalle Bielefeld
• Kunsthaus Nürnberg
• Kunstmuseum, Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg
• Kunstverein Ahlen
• Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz
• Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Lübeck
• Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg
• Situation Kunst Bochum
• Städtische Galerie Ingolstadt
• Städtische Galerie Regensburg
• Städtische Galerie Rosenheim (mit R. Wachter)
• Städtische Galerie Würzburg
• Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
• Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen

Film contributions:

• ARD-Alpha Kunstraum, PROTEST, 2013
• ARD-Alpha Kunstraum, SCHNEE, 2009